Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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two film markets are converging. We speak to a Chinese American actor who's worked on

both sides of the Pacific and who says quite the opposite.

First up though.

The total number of vades given to each candidate, whereas follows.

The race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and therefore the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is down to two.

Michael Gove, 75, Jeremy Hunt, 77, Boris Johnson, 160.

We therefore declare that Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson are going forward to a vote of the qualifying membership of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

It had been up to the Tory parliamentarians to whittle the candidates down.

The final vote will come from 160,000 paid up members of the party who overwhelmingly support Brexit.

The winner will be announced in about a month. The out and out favourite is Boris Johnson.

He was a key figure in the leave campaign and says the UK should be prepared to depart from the European Union without a deal.

The hard Brexit that many fear. His opponent, the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, voted to remain and like Theresa May before him argues that a no-deal scenario should be avoided.

Now a Brexit tier, he's picked up the nickname Theresa and trousers.

If Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister, what will that mean for the UK, the Conservative Party, and Brexit?

Boris Johnson has been one of the biggest figures in British politics for almost the past decade now.

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